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Mediapro Studio Buys ‘Game Of Thrones’ Firm Fresco Film The Mediapro Studio has bought Fresco Film, the Malaga-based production services company that played a key role in Game of Thrones filming in Spain, helping to establish a lucrative tax credit system in the process. Mediapro sees the acquisition as part of its strategy to attract large-scale international

Steve McQueen’s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan, will be the closing night selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere, said the fest’s parent Film At Lincoln Center. The re-creation of London during its blitzkrieg by the Germans during World War II is told from the parallel perspectives

Paul Feig is set to direct a new movie for Blumhouse based on William Brennan’s New York Magazine article that inspired the Netflix unscripted series Worst Roommate Ever. In the pic, a newly single woman finds a seemingly perfect gentleman to sublet the spare room in her dream home, but she soon learns that his deceit goes

The Boy and the Heron, the Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning animated feature from Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli, has been set to premiere exclusively on Max in the U.S. on Friday, September 6. There, the film will join the rest of the Studio Ghibli library, which came to Max as part of an exclusive

EXCLUSIVE: Djimon Hounsou has joined the cast of Sony Pictures‘ untitled thriller from producers Adam McKay and Kevin Messick. Phoebe Dynevor and Whitney Peak are also starring, with Tommy Wirkola writing and directing. Plot is being kept under wraps. McKay and Messick are producing through HyperObject Industries. Hounsou was most recently seen in the box office hit A Quiet Place: Day One with Lupita

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has commenced production on The Long Walk, its adaptation of the 1979 novel from Stephen King, starring Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, adding seven to the cast. The newcomers are Garrett Wareing (Ransom Canyon), Tut Nyuot (The Witcher: Blood Origin), Charlie Plummer (National Anthem), Ben Wang (American Born Chinese), Jordan Gonzalez (Pretty Little

Earlier this summer we had to endure the misbegotten Summer Camp which was yet another attempt by Diane Keaton, joined by Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard, to mix comedy and later-in-life drama in an older female bonding flick. Keaton had great success in the first film that announced this subgenre, 2018’s Book Club, which smartly

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films has won a spirited auction to land The Corsair Code, an original feature film set to star Chris Hemsworth. The film is based on a short story by Jonathan Tropper, which he brought to Hemsworth and his producing partner Ben Grayson. Hemsworth and Grayson will produce through their Wild State shingle,

A group of 11 former employees of bankrupt Redbox parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment have filed a lawsuit charging the company and ex-CEO Bill Rouhana with “greed at shocking levels.” The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Michael Alder and Lani Levine of L.A. firm AlderLaw, seeks up to $1 billion

Police are investigating an apparent suicide at Trilith Studios in the Atlanta suburb of Fayetteville, GA. Officers and medical personnel responded to a report of an “unconscious adult contractor” inside a vehicle on the studio property at around 6:47 a.m. Wednesday, according to a police statement. The unidentified person was found dead from an apparent

San Diego Comic-Con is back in full force this year as the Hollywood studios bring their major IP to the iconic convention after many skipped out on the 2023 event because of the dual writers and actors strikes. But while there are panels, parties and activations galore, their signage is still lacking in the area

EXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenate actress and comedian Lisa Ann Walter has signed with Gersh for representation. Walter, one of the stars of ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy series Abbott Elementary, has earned a Peabody award and shares a SAG award for her role as Melissa Schemmenti on the show which is entering its fourth season. Her other credits include

UPDATED, 12:12 PM: A tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged that longtime fugitive Roman Polanski sexually assaulted her in the 1970s at his home after plying her with tequila there and at a restaurant, all the while knowing she was a minor. In court papers filed Tuesday

Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who is an EP on the current faith-based title Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, recently issued a statement on social, distancing herself from the movie’s conservative partners, The Daily Wire. Wright was reportedly getting dinged on social about being affiliated with the org, which claims was “not

EXCLUSIVE: Grandview has promoted Cooper McCary to Manager. His clients include Benjy Steinberg, who won the Sundance Episodic Fellowship Grant in 2023; Brett Haley, slated to direct the adaptation of Emily Henry’s New York Times Bestseller People We Meet on Vacation for 3000 Pictures and Temple Hill; Cambron Clark, whose spec screenplay Madden was recently

Add one of America’s most political filmmakers to the list of those calling for Joe Biden to step aside as the Democratic candidate for president. Oscar-winner Michael Moore published a piece on his website asking the president not to “let your enablers hound you into doing what your body is begging you not to do.”

Scarlett Johansson is on board for Jurassic World 4 and was surprised with a message from Jeff Goldblum. During an appearance on the Today show, Johansson was greeted with a message from Goldblum with some sound advice. “Dr. Johansson, this is Jeff Goldblum,” he said in a video message played by the NBC morning show.

If Top Gun: Maverick confirmed anything, it reminded Hollywood that Tom Cruise is a master at marketing movies. The busy Cruise recently put his promo powers — including his megawatt smile — to work in service of a former co-star in that film, showing up for the European premiere of the upcoming July 14 release

After scripting the beloved fashion-world dramedy The Devil Wears Prada, starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, which grossed over $326 million worldwide in its June 2006 debut, Aline Brosh McKenna has been tapped to script a sequel in early development at Disney, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Reps for the studio declined comment.

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator follow-up film will step into the box office arena at the end of 2024 with a stacked and strong-looking cast. The recent reset of Wicked’s release date has put Universal’s movie musical up against Gladiator II in a showdown, not unlike that of Barbievs. Oppenheimer. Wicked was previously set to compete with